CVE-2009-0115 Information

Description

The Device Mapper multipathing driver (aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath) 0.4.8 as used in SUSE openSUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Fedora and possibly other operating systems uses world-writable permissions for the socket file (aka /var/run/multipathd.sock) which allows local users to send arbitrary commands to the multipath daemon.

Reference

http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3-test/repodata/patch-kpartx-6082.xml http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0115 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://secunia.com/advisories/34418 http://secunia.com/advisories/34642 http://secunia.com/advisories/34694 http://secunia.com/advisories/34710 http://secunia.com/advisories/34759 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-128.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1767 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9214 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00231.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00236.html